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Getting Inside Hitler’s Head

When America’s spymaster hired a psychiatrist to figure out the Führer, the result was disturbing—and, as history showed, accurate.

August 2009

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Americans in paris

Eighty days after they hit Normandy’s beaches on D-Day, GIs marched into the City of Lights, and the celebration of a lifetime. By John E. Stanchak

Scouring Guam’s … continue reading »

Articles Archive

Selected articles from past issues of the magazine’s print edition in the categories

Audie Murphy:
A Life Larger Than Legend

Rejected twice for war service, this scrawny Texas farm boy became America’s most decorated WWII hero–and a movie star.

Nazi Spies Come Ashore

A rubber raft splashed ashore in the dark at Bar Harbor, Maine, on the night of November 29, 1944. Clearly, the men in the raft were up to something… By Richard Sassaman

with illustrations by Paul Whitman

It was 20 degrees … continue reading »

Remember Pearl Harbor

Striking a match, sending a postcard, or even getting dressed, WWII Americans heard the same rallying cry over and over: Remember Pearl Harbor!

A Real Rosie

By Mae Graybill with Judy Sopronyi

 

Mae (Eckley) Graybill is proud of her World War II experience as a riveter on the B-26 Marauder medium bomber at the Glenn L. Martin plant outside Baltimore, Maryland. Lately she’s even earned … continue reading »

Pigeons of War

In fierce fighting and deep in enemy territory, American pigeons carried life-or-death messages that radio and field phones could not.

Fat Man and Little Boy

Sixty years ago, a pair of atomic bombs scorched Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, people who helped build them and people who felt their deadly power still grapple with the bombs’ grim realities.

Saved By Shrapnel

Sam Loeb tells of his days pushing with the 99th Infantry Division through Europe to defeat Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. (The uncut version of I Was There from the June 2010 issue.)

Captain Hollywood

Mobbed by women and sought for capture by his fan the Fuhrer, Clark Gable never got his wish: to be an ordinary B-17 gunner.

Cloak and Dagger Army:
The OSS

Spies and saboteurs, rakes and femmes fatales, scientists and radicals: they all fought for Allied victory under the Office of Strategic Services.